Write Your Story: A Simple Framework to Understand Yourself, Your Story, and Your Purpose in the World

by Allison Fallon, Donald Miller (foreword)

Allison Fallon's Write Your Story provides a simple framework that will help listeners capture, in writing, the depth of life events and, in turn, to make sense of their lives.

Once you understand yourself and your life, you will live with more purpose and confidence.

We've all spent seasons reacting to the world around us, as though the world were telling a story and we were simply the audience, bystanders watching it all happen. The a life of regret and a feeling that we missed our purpose.

Author Allison Fallon has led thousands of people just like you to find greater meaning by helping them write their story. She's witnessed the phenomenon of a person stepping back, analyzing their life, and realizing what they're good at and what they are not, the types of people who hurt them and those who help, and the things that provide satisfaction and what leaves them empty. And in all this, they find their purpose. They find their story.

When you know your story, you know who you are and why you matter. You understand the many ways you can help others, and you develop a resilience over pain that can make you unstoppable.

Allison's simple formula will help you process your life and get your whole story down—in only five pages! This isn't a formula to teach you to write a book (although the exercises may lead to that), but it will help you understand yourself, your story, and your purpose.

We will never know who we are until we know our story. And we will never know our story until we take time to write it down. So let's begin.

Genres: Writing

224 pages, Hardcover

Published May 7, 2024

About the author

Allison Fallon is the author of The Power of Writing It Down, as well as Packing Light and Indestructible. She is a speaker, and the founder of Find Your Voice, a community that supports anyone who wants to write anything. She has helped leaders of multi-national corporations, stay-at-home moms, Olympic gold medalists, recovering addicts, political figures, CEOs, and prison inmates use the Find Your Voice method as a powerful tool to generate positive change in their lives. She has lived all over the country in the past decade but now lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband and daughter. You can follow Allison at www.allisonfallon.com.

Reviews

[Lynne Lorentsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoy this author’s voice and pacing with what she has to say. I trust where she is going as she brings the reader along because even the example stories which illustrate points are not gratuitous or unnecessarily long. Although I’d still read them if they had been, I think if the point of the book is to teach a method, Fallon stays on task really well! Am very much enjoying her tutelage via her writing course, as well!

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a blog writer, I’m pretty well versed in how to write my story, at least I thought I was until I read Write Your Story. The framework the author shares is easy to follow, and simple to apply to your life as you write your own story. Even if you are not a writer, you can find many benefits to writing your story.

[Liberty · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5